Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.

I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.

When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.

Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in a book was to be slightly wacky, a little greedy and ultimately slothful. There was no value. You couldn't make money from reading a book. A book did not clean bathrooms and waxed floors. It did not put the garden in. You couldn't have a conversation while reading. It was arrogant and alienated others. In short, those who read were wasteful and haughty and incapable of living in the real world. They were dreamers.

'Jersey Boys' was a lot of running around and a lot of energy, but it was more stylized movement.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.